Contax Aria rewind issues

[scautez]

Hi,

I recently acquired a Contax Aria, and it works perfectly except it does not auto rewind. I was wondering if someone might know how I can fix this. I have found I can manually rewind using a pin to trigger the manual rewind, but thought it would be good to see if the auto rewind actually works or not.

Thanks kindly,
Shane

 

[sevo]

Integral drive electronic film cameras usually check for "end of film" by measuring electric parameters in the motor power supply. As fresh high-quality CR2 cells are increasingly hard to get, I'd first of all check whether the ones installed supply enough power under load - if they are stale, that discrimination between motor states might fail...

 

[Rico]

Custom Function 4 is probably 1, and must be 0 to auto-rewind. See p.174 in the manual (available online).

 

[scautez]

Thanks Rico. That was exactly it. The function was set to manual rewind. Thanks for your help 🙂